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Effect of Mechanical Stress on Individual Vimentin Filaments Studied using the C-Trap^®

The paper "Nonlinear Loading-Rate-Dependent Force Response of Individual Vimentin Intermediate Filaments to Applied Strain" using LUMICKS’ C-Trap® has recently been published in Physical Review Letters. Congratulations to all the authors! The study led by Prof. Sarah Köster, investigated the mechanical properties of the cytoskeleton in eukaryotic cells; and more specifically…

Jerom Langeveld27 January 2017

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LUMICKS Wins Young Startup Award

LUMICKS won this year’s national Dutch Young Startup Award! The Young Startup Award is awarded to innovative companies in the Netherlands that are seen to have strong technological developments with an international impact. It is great to get the conformation that LUMICKS is on the right track to make a lasting impact…

Jerom Langeveld24 January 2017

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C-Trap^® installed at Rockefeller University

LUMICKS is proud to announce that a C-Trap® optical tweezers-fluorescence microscopy system was installed at Rockefeller University in the Liu Lab led by Assistant Professor Shixin Liu. Dr. Liu wil use the C-Trap to study how cells execute replication, transcription, translation and degradation processes in a coordinated manner, and how environmental changes…

Jerom Langeveld14 December 2016

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C-Trap^® Installed at FOM Institute AMOLF

LUMICKS is happy to announce another C-Trap® installation in the Netherlands: at FOM Institute AMOLF in the Tans Biophysics lab led by Professor Sander Tans. Prof. Tans will use the C-Trap® to study the mechanisms by which chaperones act to achieve native protein folds. A recent paper in Nature (see also…

Jerom Langeveld28 November 2016

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Optical Tweezers-Fluorescence Microscopy Workshop at LUMICKS HQ

From November 15th to the 17th, LUMICKS organized a correlative optical tweezers-fluorescence microscopy workshop in our office in Amsterdam. It proved to be a great success! Seven participants joined us in the hands-on workshop, with lectures from prof. Gijs Wuite, prof. Erwin Peterman and Roeland van Wijk, and were updated…

Jerom Langeveld23 November 2016

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Customer Case Story MPI-CBG Dresden

In March 2016 LUMICKS delivered a C-Trap® correlative optical tweezers - fluorescence microscopy instrument to the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) in Dresden. The instrument was acquired at the end of 2015 by a group of MPI-CBG principle investigators to fulfill a need for application…

Jerom Langeveld15 November 2016

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STED Application Note Now Online

Today’s quantitative analysis of DNA-protein interactions at the single-molecule level requires the capability of measuring under biologically relevant conditions with high temporal resolution. This problem can especially be observed when in vitro experiments are linked with the in vivo situation in which proteins interact highly dynamic with DNA at high…

Jerom Langeveld1 November 2016

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C-Trap^® Installation at University of Groningen

LUMICKS is proud to announce that we successfully installed a C-Trap® at the University of Groningen in the lab of professor Roos. The Roos group will use the optical tweezers-fluorescence microscopy system to investigate the structure and mechanics of viral capsids and their interaction with host cell molecules. We’re looking…

Jerom Langeveld26 October 2016

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LUMICKS Moves to New Office

After a lot of preparation, painting and moving, LUMICKS is happy to announce that we moved into a new office! After 3 years of working in several rooms in the Vrije Universteit in Amsterdam, we now have a whole wing in the building. It has plenty of offices, flex spaces,…

Jerom Langeveld13 October 2016

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LUMICKS Featured in De Ingenieur

LUMICKS has been featured in the Dutch magazine De Ingenieur with an article named “Bewegend DNA-beeld”, or a moving DNA-image. De Ingenieur is a monthly Dutch magazine that specializes in technological developments and the policies surrounding them. This month’s edition is focused on medical biology, with a four-page article by…

Jerom Langeveld12 October 2016

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